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A Saturday with power outages above the expected and a black Sunday foreshadow what is to come as another dark end of the year for Cubans.
On Saturday, according to the statement from La Unión Eléctrica (UNE), the service was affected for 24 hours.
The highest impact due to a generation capacity deficit yesterday was 2013 MW at 6:30 PM, exceeding what was planned due to the failure to bring Unit 8 of the CTE Mariel online, they admitted.
For its part, this Sunday, the blackouts continue. A capacity of 1500 MW is expected with a maximum demand of 3450 MW, resulting in a deficit of 1950 MW. If the expected conditions persist, a shortfall of 1980 MW is forecasted during this time, as detailed in the daily report from UNE.
This impact assumes the smooth entry of unit 3 from the Santa Cruz CTE with 50 MW, "currently in the startup process."
The following units are out of service: Unit 8 of the CTE Maximo Gomez, Unit 2 of the CTE Felton; under maintenance: Unit 6 of the CTE Mariel, Units 2 and 3 of the CTE Santa Cruz, and Unit 4 of the CTE Carlos Manuel de Céspedes in Cienfuegos.
The limitations in thermal generation amount to 546 MW out of service.
The problems due to fuel shortages include 93 distributed generation plants with 875 MW, 108 MW at the Moa Fuel Plant, and 81 MW unavailable due to a lack of lubricant, totaling 1,064 MW affected by this issue.
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